Hello Dave, Good Rant. And I agree on all your points. I think that you need to have one more point for problems though.
4) no Standards for PC programmers. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ext. 40441 > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dave Wade > Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Off Subject Programming and retraining > > /* start of rant */ > Can I beg to differ. On the PC platform VB is > perfectly usable for 99% of projects. > > The biggest problem with most software projects are > not choice of platform or choice of implementation > language. The biggest problems are :- > > 1) Not defining what you actually want the system to > do. > 2) Changing (1) after work gas started. > 3) Expecting technology to solve what are people or > process problems. > 4) Expecting a system to do everything, inlcuding make > the tea, without any management. >
